The Aluminia Faience factory date its history to the year 1862 founded by
August Schiøttt (1834 - 1863). In 1868 Philip Schou took over the factory and
moved the production to Frederiksberg. In 1882 he bought the Royal Copenhagen
Porcelain Manufactory and the two companies merged to one. The production of
faience lived its own quite life in the shadow of the blooming interest for
industrial production of porcelain at Royal Copenhagen. But the period from 1901
- 1928 became a new period of success under the artistic input from Chr.
Joachim (1870-1943) and Harald Slott-Møller (1864-1937). They crated the
important works of Danish Skonvirke in the coloristic Art faience of Aluminia.
Later Nils Thorsson took the manufactory into the new and final era in the
period 1928-1969.

15. 1922 the rubber stamp "Københavns
Fajance Fabrik Danmark" (The Faience manufactory of Copenhagen: It is seen
in different sizes. As a rule it is black but is also found as blue or
brown. Used until 1933

16. In 1933 they returned to the
Aluminia mark. Used as a rubber stamp green "A with the three wavy
lines and nothing else

23. Ceramia. Copperplated
bluish gray decoration mark for Ceramia 1882 - 1890 Inspired by the
English Order of the Garter

24. Copperplated green decoration
markings for Here 1882-1924

25. Copperplate decoration markings
for the water pattern with decorations Funen and Jutlan (Fyn &
Jylland)

26. Siam. Copper plated
green mark for the decoration SIam 1901 -1908

27. Copenhagen Denmark. The
first decoration mark with green rubberstamp came in 1906 - was first
intended for the art faience, which then was being exported. From 1913 it
was also used at air painted faience

28.Printed, green rubberstamped
decoration mark from 1919: Eremitage Köbenhavn: In addition a
handpainted number from the special numbering system of the Eremitage
series

29. Marselis from 1952 by
Thorsson without year marking. Variable sizes

30. Veronica from 1956 by
Thorkild Olsen

31. Columbine from 1957 by
Nils Torsson. The year marking in the example to the right show 1958
according to the list above

32. Hand painted marking started on colored art
faience in 1901-1902. The figure above shows the development of the mark
from 1901 - 1906. It started with the Beehive mark and a number. The
Beehive mark was the A from Aluminia and the thee wavy lines from
Royal Copenhagen. This hand painted A was used in the period 1901 -
1933. A decoration number was added starting with # 1. The artist
signature was given with Roman numerals first, later with a painter number
in Arabic numbers and finally the monogram in letters. In 1903 a model or
form number was in use - so you had the decoration # over the line and the
form # under the line. In 1906 Copenhagen Denmark was added because of
international export.

The # marking of the early art
faience 1903-1930. The # above the line shows the # of decoration. The #
below the line tells the form and year

100-150 = 1903

401-500 = 1906

601-650 = 1909

731-760 = 1912

861-920 = 1915

1021-1100 = 1918

151-250 = 1904

501-550 = 1907

651-690 = 1910

761-800 = 1913

921-960 = 1916

1101-1200 = 1919

251-400 = 1905

551-600 = 1908

691-730 = 1911

801-860 = 1914

961-1020 = 1917

1200-1500 = 1920-1930

Joakim Petersen - Later Chr. Joakim

Air painted Faience

33. A with three vawy line.. From 1913 a green
stamped beehive Aluminia mark was used for air painted faience. The Irma
vase and early jam boxes

34. David Metz Kjöbenhavn. A tea box from the
David Metz company had its own mark

35. From 1915 Tidemands Jam boxes got a special mark used
until 1938 in different variations

41. The jungle series made of firebrick came in
in 1931 and was marked with the three wavy lines as Royal Copenhagen
stoneware. The decoration numbering from the Jungle stoneware
5001-5038. The form numbers from 5001 - 5033. The vase on the right side
has decoration # 5036 and form # 5031,

Other decoration of turquoise had the decoration numbers from #6000 -
#6016

42. Ovenproof ceramic 1957 - 1969 like Pyrolin,
Hotelin and Variant. Also used for art pottery from Johannes Hedegaard